What Is The Answer?

This painting represents a school pupil, wearing a dunces hat and chained to a globe as a ball and chain. He’s worked out the answer on an abacus and eagerly puts his hand up straight in the hope that he will be picked to give his answer.

He also wears a clown’s ruff, representing the millions of nobodies in society disregarded as idiots by authority figures without a mind of their own. He won’t get the opportunity to answer the question. What is the question?
He is blind, dumb, deaf. His eyes are vacant. The clock, seen through the window also has a blank face. The light bulb above his head representing ideas is switched off.

There are a number of repeated geometric shapes in this painting, especially cones and spheres.

The original painting has been sold but good quality prints are available.